A tightly wound, consuming tale for readers of Claire Keegan and Ian McEwan, about a 1950s housewife who decides to get into the pool in her family's apartment complex one morning and won't come out.
One unseasonably warm November day in 1957, Kathleen, a standout college tennis player, mother of two boys and wife to flagrantly handsome, aimless life insurance salesman, Virgil, decides to take a dip into the kidney-shaped swimming pool in their Delaware apartment complex instead of going to church. And she won't come out.
A consuming, single-sitting read set over the course of eight hours, “The Most” breaches the shimmering surface of a seemingly idyllic mid-century marriage and immerses us in the simmering tensions, sacrifices, and secrets beneath. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth carrying that poor little doomed Soviet space dog, Kathleen and Virgil hurtle towards each other and towards a reckoning that will either shatter the smooth edifice of their marriage or transform it, at last, into something real.
Narrator Abigail Reno transports listeners to November 1957 and a dysfunctional marriage. The story begins on an unseasonably warm fall day. Kathleen decides to skip church and instead sends her boys and her husband, Virgil, out of the house for the day. As Kathleen reflects on how she went from college tennis star to homemaker and mother, Virgil spends the day reflecting on his own questionable
